The motivation behind this project is roller coasters. What goes into designing one and what would happen if two cars raced each other? The main goal of the project is to build a roller coaster out of Lego blocks and K’Nex pieces. It will be built to have two separate tracks with two separate cars, and the two cars race against each other. The project will be programmed to have a different car win in a random order.
The major tasks of the project will be designing the outline of the roller coaster tracks, building the support for the track and programming the Lego Mindstorms to control where the car will go.
The two roller coasters will start at the middle of the board. The cars will go up a large hill, approximately five feet tall, and will drop into a loop. Then they will go their separate ways and go up another hill which will drop into corkscrews. There will be helixes to slow the cars down and they will meet at the center to start their next run. Both roller coasters together should be about 3 feet by 4 feet and 3.25 feet tall.
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| A model of our roller coaster made in Roller Coaster Tycoon |
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